Katherine Jackson, the children’s grandmother and guardian, said she wants to give them a more conventional upbringing after years of being kept largely hidden from the outside world.
In an interview to mark the first anniversary of her son’s death she told the Mail on Sunday: “I’d say I’m a little less strict but I’ve tried to follow the way Michael was raising them.
“But they don’t have friends. They don’t go to school. They have private lessons at home. They’ll be going to a private school in September for the first time.”
But the 80-year-old great-grandmother dismissed the suggestion that they could ever have a normal life.
Michael Jackson died of a suspected heart attack on June 25 last year at his Los Angeles home.
His mother was made legal guardian of his children in the weeks following Michael’s death, although she has no control over his estate, which is held in a trust fund.
She said Prince, 13, Paris, 12, and Blanket, eight, had been deeply affected by their father’s death. She said Paris has created a shrine to him in her bedroom.
“So she goes to bed looking at him and wakes up looking at him. Paris has that lovely way like Michael, and I see his talent in her.
“Whatever she does she’s very good at it. She’s a good artist and plays the piano. She wants to be an actress.”
To help her face up to Friday’s anniversary, the great-grandmother has put together a collection of Jackson family photographs, in Never Can Say Goodbye: The Katherine Jackson Archives.
She said: “I want the world to know the real Michael. All these allegations in the tabloids, it’s all rubbish.
‘People with children will understand how I feel when somebody says something ugly about my son, especially when it’s not true. That’s why I’m releasing the book. I’d like him to be remembered as the loving person he was.”
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